Genesis 12:1

Good News Translation (US Version)

The Lord said to Abram, “Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's home, and go to a land that I am going to show you.

Cross References

Hebrews 11:8

It was faith that made Abraham obey when God called him to go out to a country which God had promised to give him. He left his own country without knowing where he was going.

Nehemiah 9:7

You, Lord God, chose Abram and led him out of Ur in Babylonia; you changed his name to Abraham.

Isaiah 51:2

Think of your ancestor, Abraham, and of Sarah, from whom you are descended. When I called Abraham, he was childless, but I blessed him and gave him children; I made his descendants numerous.

Genesis 15:7

Then the Lord said to him, “I am the Lord, who led you out of Ur in Babylonia, to give you this land as your own.”

Ezekiel 33:24

“Mortal man,” he said, “the people who are living in the ruined cities of the land of Israel are saying: ‘Abraham was only one man, and he was given the whole land. There are many of us, so now the land is ours.’

2 Corinthians 6:17

And so the Lord says, “You must leave them and separate yourselves from them. Have nothing to do with what is unclean, and I will accept you.

Isaiah 41:9

I brought you from the ends of the earth; I called you from its farthest corners and said to you, ‘You are my servant.’ I did not reject you, but chose you.

Revelation 18:4

Then I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out, my people! Come out from her! You must not take part in her sins; you must not share in her punishment!

Genesis 20:13

So when God sent me from my father's house into foreign lands, I said to her, ‘You can show how loyal you are to me by telling everyone that I am your brother.’”

Genesis 24:4

You must go back to the country where I was born and get a wife for my son Isaac from among my relatives.”

Genesis 26:2

The Lord had appeared to Isaac and had said, “Do not go to Egypt; stay in this land, where I tell you to stay.

Isaiah 37:12

My ancestors destroyed the cities of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and killed the people of Betheden who lived in Telassar, and none of their gods could save them.

Genesis 24:7

The Lord, the God of heaven, brought me from the home of my father and from the land of my relatives, and he solemnly promised me that he would give this land to my descendants. He will send his angel before you, so that you can get a wife there for my son.

Genesis 24:38

Instead, go to my father's people, to my relatives, and choose a wife for him.’

Numbers 10:30

Hobab answered, “No, I am going back to my native land.”